Book/Printed Material Massasoit's town Sowams in Pokanoket, its history, legends and traditions,
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Image 1 of Massasoit's town Sowams in Pokanoket, its history, legends and traditions,- Contributor: Baker, Virginia
- Date: 1904
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Image 2 of Massasoit's town Sowams in Pokanoket, its history, legends and traditions,- Contributor: Baker, Virginia
- Date: 1904
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Image 3 of Massasoit's town Sowams in Pokanoket, its history, legends and traditions,- Contributor: Baker, Virginia
- Date: 1904
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- Date: 1904
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- Date: 1904
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Image 6 of Massasoit's town Sowams in Pokanoket, its history, legends and traditions,- Contributor: Baker, Virginia
- Date: 1904
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Image 7 of Massasoit's town Sowams in Pokanoket, its history, legends and traditions, Massasoits Town Sowams in Pokanoket ITS HISTORY LEGENDS AND TRADITIONS By VIRGINIA BAKER Author of The History of Warren R I in the War of the Revolution PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR WARREN…- Contributor: Baker, Virginia
- Date: 1904
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Image 8 of Massasoit's town Sowams in Pokanoket, its history, legends and traditions, 74 a Cie S eo e qe 2S y 7 eee 6 a14846 ee eo off 6 ae 2 e ee re e Oa e coor fceRARY sf CONGRESS Two Cepies Received…- Contributor: Baker, Virginia
- Date: 1904
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Image 9 of Massasoit's town Sowams in Pokanoket, its history, legends and traditions, ae Massasoits Town Sowams in Pokanoket oat PECULIAR interest centres about everything per A taining to the great Wampanoag sachem Massasoit Massasoit has always and justly been regarded as one of the…- Contributor: Baker, Virginia
- Date: 1904
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Image 10 of Massasoit's town Sowams in Pokanoket, its history, legends and traditions, 4 Massasoits Town densely populated than any other part of the Wampanoag country Its principal settlement was the village of Sowams where Massasoit maintained his headquarters and where without doubt the greater…- Contributor: Baker, Virginia
- Date: 1904
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Image 11 of Massasoit's town Sowams in Pokanoket, its history, legends and traditions, Sowams in Pokanoket 5 winds that during the winter months sweep the unsheltered shores of Bristol In the days when the Wampanoags in habited its territory it was well timbered and grapes…- Contributor: Baker, Virginia
- Date: 1904
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Image 12 of Massasoit's town Sowams in Pokanoket, its history, legends and traditions, 6 Massasoits Town This tribe properly speaking was a confederation of clans each clan having its own headman who was however sub servient to a chief sachem The Wampanoags or Pokanokets as…- Contributor: Baker, Virginia
- Date: 1904
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Image 13 of Massasoit's town Sowams in Pokanoket, its history, legends and traditions, Sowams in Pokanoket 7 Little Compton Namasket Middleborough Nobsquasset Yarmouth Monamoit Chatham Nauset Eastham Patuxet Plymouth and other places together with the headmen of some of the Nipmuc nation were tributary to…- Contributor: Baker, Virginia
- Date: 1904
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Image 14 of Massasoit's town Sowams in Pokanoket, its history, legends and traditions, 8 Massasoits Town ments were precisely those best calculated to develop a character naturally strong He dwelt in a land which if not literally flowing with milk and honey abounded with everything…- Contributor: Baker, Virginia
- Date: 1904
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Image 15 of Massasoit's town Sowams in Pokanoket, its history, legends and traditions, Sowams in Pokanoket 9 in Spain Had the English attempted a settlement at Plymouth when the Pokanokets were at the zenith of their power they would probably have been either exterminated or…- Contributor: Baker, Virginia
- Date: 1904
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Image 16 of Massasoit's town Sowams in Pokanoket, its history, legends and traditions, 10 Massasoits Town South Swansea and from there to Kickemuit in the easterly part of Warren Undoubtedly the Kickemuit River was crossed at a wadingplace often alluded to in the early records…- Contributor: Baker, Virginia
- Date: 1904
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Image 17 of Massasoit's town Sowams in Pokanoket, its history, legends and traditions, Sowams in Pokanoket 11 against whom he seemed to feel a particular aversion Late it grew states Winslow in his narrative of this journey to Pokanoket but victuals he offered none for…- Contributor: Baker, Virginia
- Date: 1904
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Image 18 of Massasoit's town Sowams in Pokanoket, its history, legends and traditions, 12 Massasoits Town certain Master John Hamden a gentleman of London sup posed by some to be the famous parliamentarian of that name and for a guide the friendly native Hobbamock The…- Contributor: Baker, Virginia
- Date: 1904
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Image 19 of Massasoit's town Sowams in Pokanoket, its history, legends and traditions, Sowams in Pokanoket is year and finding its way to the surface trickles into the river The water which never fails is of excellent quality and even in warm weather remains pure…- Contributor: Baker, Virginia
- Date: 1904
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Image 20 of Massasoit's town Sowams in Pokanoket, its history, legends and traditions, 14 Massasoits Town gathered a handful and put them in the pot with the corn with a slice of saxifrax root to give the mixture a good relish When this gruel was…- Contributor: Baker, Virginia
- Date: 1904
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Image 21 of Massasoit's town Sowams in Pokanoket, its history, legends and traditions, Sowams in Pokanoket 15 slumber from which he awakened refreshed and strengthened Meanwhile the messenger returned from Plymouth with the chickens and other things for which Winslow had asked but Massasoit finding…- Contributor: Baker, Virginia
- Date: 1904
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Image 22 of Massasoit's town Sowams in Pokanoket, its history, legends and traditions, 16 Massasoits Town presence of two or three of his most trusted counsellors charged him to acquaint Winslow with the existence of a plot originated by the Massachusetts Indians against Westons colony…- Contributor: Baker, Virginia
- Date: 1904
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Image 23 of Massasoit's town Sowams in Pokanoket, its history, legends and traditions, So wams in Pokanoket ty compelled to constantly cross and recross in their traffic with the Indians Moreover as early as 1652 an English settlement had been planted in what now constitutes…- Contributor: Baker, Virginia
- Date: 1904
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Image 24 of Massasoit's town Sowams in Pokanoket, its history, legends and traditions, 18 Massasoits Town they invaded Pokanoket for the purpose of compelling Mass asoit and his warriors to assist them in repulsing the Pequots may be only conjectured Standish perhaps fearing a second…- Contributor: Baker, Virginia
- Date: 1904
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Image 25 of Massasoit's town Sowams in Pokanoket, its history, legends and traditions, Sowams in Pokanoket 19 sought refuge with Massasoit Rhode Islands great educa tional institution Rhode Island College now Brown Univer sity began its career within a few rods of the site of…- Contributor: Baker, Virginia
- Date: 1904
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Image 26 of Massasoit's town Sowams in Pokanoket, its history, legends and traditions, 20 Massasoits Town muit Spring The soil in the vicinity of this spring is mixed with oyster clam and quahaug shells to the depth of several feet and from it various aboriginal…- Contributor: Baker, Virginia
- Date: 1904
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Image 27 of Massasoit's town Sowams in Pokanoket, its history, legends and traditions, Sowams in Pokanoket 21 line separating Massachusetts and Rhode Island There were other paths leading to Birch Swamp in the north easterly part of Warren to Poppasquash the name then applied to…- Contributor: Baker, Virginia
- Date: 1904
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Image 28 of Massasoit's town Sowams in Pokanoket, its history, legends and traditions, 22 Massasoits Town to sell his birthright is a question more easily asked than answered gratitude probably influenced him in part He never forgot that he owed his life to his English…- Contributor: Baker, Virginia
- Date: 1904
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Image 29 of Massasoit's town Sowams in Pokanoket, its history, legends and traditions, Sowams in Pokanoket 23 1 e the wadingplace Standish also had land on the east bank of the river from the wadingplace to a certain creek running towards the upland His next…- Contributor: Baker, Virginia
- Date: 1904
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Image 30 of Massasoit's town Sowams in Pokanoket, its history, legends and traditions, 24 Massasoits Town at Indian Sowams remained uninterrupted The civilized farmer and the savage warrior appear to have each dwelt quietly under the shadow of his own vine and fig tree Doubtless…- Contributor: Baker, Virginia
- Date: 1904
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Image 31 of Massasoit's town Sowams in Pokanoket, its history, legends and traditions, Sowams in Pokanoket 25 numbers and the remains of an ancient Indian burial ground was discovered there several years ago Soon after the death of his father Wamsutta repaired to Plymouth and…- Contributor: Baker, Virginia
- Date: 1904
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Image 32 of Massasoit's town Sowams in Pokanoket, its history, legends and traditions, 26 Massasoits Town to the Narragansett country The government decided to deal peremptorily with him and accordingly Josias Winslow then Major Commandant of the Colonial militia was de patched to bring him…- Contributor: Baker, Virginia
- Date: 1904
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Image 33 of Massasoit's town Sowams in Pokanoket, its history, legends and traditions, Sowams in Pokanoket 27 from the canoe and tenderly placed him upon the grass In stoical silence they awaited the end and when the last fluttering sigh had escaped the pallid lips…- Contributor: Baker, Virginia
- Date: 1904
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Image 34 of Massasoit's town Sowams in Pokanoket, its history, legends and traditions, 28 Massasoits Town sett and Parts Adjacent were incorporated as a township under the name of Swansea The charter granted it de scribed the township as all such lands that lyeth betwixt…- Contributor: Baker, Virginia
- Date: 1904
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Image 35 of Massasoit's town Sowams in Pokanoket, its history, legends and traditions, Sowams in Pokanoket 29 In 1675 John Sassamon a Christian Indian employed as a sort of private secretary by Philip warned the Plymouth government that his master was plotting against it Philip…- Contributor: Baker, Virginia
- Date: 1904
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Image 36 of Massasoit's town Sowams in Pokanoket, its history, legends and traditions, Ss nea Massasoits Town June 20th a party of eight warriors fully armed invaded the hamlet They knocked at the door of a colonist and demanded permission to grind their hatchets Upon…- Contributor: Baker, Virginia
- Date: 1904
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Image 37 of Massasoit's town Sowams in Pokanoket, its history, legends and traditions, Sowams in Pokanoket Si Plymouth government upon being notified of the condition of affairs immediately dispatched companies of militia to the assistance of the distressed township On June 22d six men were…- Contributor: Baker, Virginia
- Date: 1904
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Image 38 of Massasoit's town Sowams in Pokanoket, its history, legends and traditions, 32 Massasoits Town bank of Kickemuit River the soldiers discovered the heads hands and scalps of eight Englishmen murdered at Matta poisett stuck up on poles near the highway close by the…- Contributor: Baker, Virginia
- Date: 1904
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Image 39 of Massasoit's town Sowams in Pokanoket, its history, legends and traditions, Sowams in Pokanoket 33 and his partners in the Sowams purchasewas laid out and divided among the proprietors there being in all eight several apportionments of land made It is uncertain at…- Contributor: Baker, Virginia
- Date: 1904
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Image 40 of Massasoit's town Sowams in Pokanoket, its history, legends and traditions, Appendix oe Some Notes on the Family of Massasoit Massasoit had two brothers Quadequina and Akkompoin When Massasoit visited Plymouth March 22 1621 he was accompanied by Quadequina who is described as…- Contributor: Baker, Virginia
- Date: 1904
About this Item
Title
- Massasoit's town Sowams in Pokanoket, its history, legends and traditions,
Names
- Baker, Virginia.
Created / Published
- Warren, R.I., The author, 1904.
Headings
- - Wampanoag Indians
- - Massasoit,--1580-1661
- - Sowams
Notes
- - Sowams occupied the site of the present town of Warren, R.I.
- - Also available in digital form.
Medium
- 43 p. 25 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- E99.W2 B2
Library of Congress Control Number
- 04006749
OCLC Number
- 4470240
Online Format
- online text
- image